[Magdalen] Women's World Cup

[Roger Stokes]

I hadn't noticed Holiday but I had noticed Rapinoe as an inspiration on 
the field.  She will be major loss in the next round.  As for 
representation of different international federations, Europe is bigger 
than the rest which is why they had eight teams in the group stage - a 
third of the totasl qualifying teams.

Roger

On 25/06/2015 17:56, Jay Weigel wrote:
> The US will play without two of its stars, Holiday and Rapinoe, who both
> "earned" their second yellow cards the other night, thanks to some dubious
> refereeing on the part of a French ref. This should force some creative
> coaching on the part of coach Jill Ellis, though I for one am not at all
> confident that she is capable of such. And saying that one team from North
> America is "surely enough" is like saying one team from Europe or Asia is
> enough. Don't start. I really don't want to go there.
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Roger Stokes <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> Are we going to have sports wars on the list?  One team from North America
>> through to the next roiund is surely enough.  Incidentally one of the
>> leading lights in the US team got a yellow card in the last match.  Does
>> that bring a one game suspension?
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>> On 24/06/2015 19:43, Jay Weigel wrote:
>>
>>> Go Canada!
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, June 24, 2015, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>   We Canadians are rooting for Canada.  Now we must beat England, who beat
>>>> Norway last night.  One match at a time.
>>>>
>>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>>